A DESPERATE AFFAIR.
MURDER AND ATTEMPTED PIRACY,
SOME LIVELY SHOOTING.
IJy Cable.- -Press Association.—Copyright Received August 24, 1-1.30 p.m. 1 New York, August 24. [ "Frenchy West," alias Thomas,, with • a companion named George (deserters , from the warship Pensacola), embarked i on the Buckman at Seattle and planned to rob and beach the vessel, s The passengers describe tfie affair as an amazing scene of piracy and murder. There /was a lively exchange of shots, after the captain's death, between Brennan, first make, and West, who, when Quartermaster WH9on joined in the shooting, was unable to load fast enough and jumped overboard,
RUSSIA'S ARTILLERY w SUPPLIES TO COME FROM GERMANY. ( A STORM OF INDIGNATION. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright (Received August 24, 11.30 p.m. j St. Petersburg, August 24. ! There was a storm of indignation in the press when, after the Duma held a secret sitting and granted the Artillery Department £2,500,'000 sterling for artillery pn the understanding that the guns and material were to be made in Russia, the order was given to Krupps, of.Germany.
It is rumored that the Grand Duke Sergius, Inspector-General of Ordnance, was responsible for this.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19100825.2.35
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 117, 25 August 1910, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
188A DESPERATE AFFAIR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 117, 25 August 1910, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in